Media Releases
Bowen Basin gas approval a reckless risk of groundwater
October 29, 2014
The Federal Government has given approval to Arrow Energy for 4,000 new coal seam gas wells in the Bowen Basin, including up to a thousand wells that can be fracked. These wells will stretch hundreds of kilometres from northeast of Moranbah to Blackwater, west...
Read MoreGasfield Free Northern Rivers moves one step closer
October 29, 2014
A Northern Rivers region free of unconventional gas mining has moved one step closer today, as the NSW Labor Party extends its policy to ban gas mining in the region to cover the Clarence electorate.
Read MoreMinerals Council claims on job losses a desperate attempt to bully government
October 24, 2014
Lock the Gate has dismissed claims by the Minerals Council, that 8,600 mining jobs are at risk in the Hunter, as wildly exaggerated.
Read MoreProtecting Water Sources: Pastoralists say floodplains are rivers too
October 24, 2014
Graziers in south-western Queensland have used National Water Week to repeat their call that protection of the Channel Country's Wild Rivers be re-instated.
Read MoreBan on Maules Creek spring clearing vindicates community concerns
October 23, 2014
The decision made by the NSW Department of Planning today to deny Whitehaven Coal a special permit to clear for the Maules Creek coal mine during the sensitive spring/early summer period has vindicated community concerns of its environmental impact, Lock the Gate said today....
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